I work for a global company with a MOLP, and we do buy systems preinstalled with Win9x/NT, and have to purchase an additional license as per our agreement.
Who cares? When we get systems with the License agreement and CD-Key, we give them away to employees, or to our after-hours clients, or to friends and family members.
Needless to say, our friends/clients are extremely happy with this arrangement.:)
Actually, I was using the dictonary reference not to establish their ownership on the word Olympic, but I was merely using it for reference.
They do have a point in going after sites that are blatently trying to use the Olympic games/Committee to make a quick buck, ususally in a not so tasteful fashion. what I have a real problem with is them doing this carte blanche lawsuit to nail *everyone* who even remotely refers to the word Olympics. Far too many innocent people are going to get nailed due to their arrogance.....
Main Entry: Olympic Pronunciation: &-'lim-pik, O- Function: adjective Date: 1590 1 : 1OLYMPIAN 2 : of or relating to the Olympic Games
So, the word itself refers to the Olympic games, and there is no reference to other uses. The only legitimate claim is for people who live in, or near, places like Olympia in Washington state, or have registered trademarks using the mythological work Olympia or Olympic (Like Olympic Meats).
My point? While they may have a legitimate beef against companies trying to profit on the Olympics name (like sex sites), trying to have 1800 web sites pulled is ludicrous. They should do their research first, and check to see if the site has a legitimate claim to the URL.
Now, if someone could only register the URL www.OlympicsForDummies.com, then we could REALLY have a fun time.
In a recent column, Chad Simonds, a Webmaster for Tucows Linux, proclaimed that, "A lot of reviewers" from several small Linux news sites "don't tell you about the bugs and compatibility problems in a program, because they keep getting free software in exchange for glowing reviews."
Uhm, isnt this free software we are talking about? One does not need to write a glowing review, or even write a review period, as the software is free anyways...
No, I am not a zealot, despite your need to label me as such in order to prove your point.
The Linux project is run by tens of thousands of programmers, hackers, and tinkerers (and spearheaded by a single man, whose name I have already mentioned). By not releasing the whole source code prevents this army of coders from accessing, modifying, auditing, or otherwise improving the Solaris code. That is the whole reason for releasing it, right?
Being given scraps is not a gift. It is a joke, and a futile attempt by Sun to embrace open source as a viable business model.
"One issue is getting it ready so that people can make sense of 5 [million] to 10 million lines of code. There are not many people who know what to do with 10 million lines of code. Freeware, open source is fine when you are talking about hundreds of lines of code," Anil Gadre, Sun's vice president and general manager for Solaris Software, told IDG News Service. "So one is an ease of use issue, and we have to try and make it friendly. The other thing we are finding out is that maybe people actually wanted certain parts and not the whole thing."
You are wrong Anil, very wrong. There is a man who knows what to do with millions of lines of code, and has been doing so for the last 10 years. His name is Linus Torvalds.
This whole paragraph outlines how Sun simply does not get the Open Source movement. Yes, they are trying. we have to give them that. But they really need to re-evaluate why they are doing it, and who they are catering to. This paragraph shows that, at this time, they just don't understand.
You know what? You are absolutely right. For some odd reason, regardless of the situation, the average computer user, quite literally, shuts off their brain when they get in front of their computer screen. It is amazing how someone who is of above average intelligence can do such stupid things when they get in front of the computer.
It all boils down to common sense. I have no sympathy for those who refuse to think when typing on a computer keyboard.
C'mon. These companies are selling a service, not hardware. If the buyer didn't figure this out when they signed on the dotted line, then it sucks to be them.
The Academy says the ruling will let filmmakers know its first priority is, and always will be, theatrical exhibition
If The academy refuses to acknowledge the importance of the web, and tries to force film-makers to discard or ignore the marketing capabilities of the Internet, then the Academy is doomed to become roadkill on the information superhighway (my apologies for such an overused phrase).
As the neutrinos zig-zag out of the hot (hundreds of billions of degrees) neutron star, they interact with the neutron star matter via the so-called weak interaction, the force responsible for radioactivity. Because the intense magnetic field can polarize the matter, more neutrinos will be emitted along the direction of the magnetic field than opposite to it.
They should rename it to be The Galactic Fart theory
Everything will be alright as long as the person has to read and agree to a licensing afreement prior to opening any documentation, much like any microsoft software. If they agree, then they can't do anything illegal with it, right?
To surf for porn? Imagine, having a whole bunch of semi intelligent bots collectively searching to 'net for free porn, faster than any hormonally overcharged teenager could ever hope to achive!
First, I sign up for this developers corner thing. Then, I get spammed big time 'cause the zipperheads include ppl who did not want to be included, and mic-configured their majordomo. I unsubscribe, only to have this 'contest' slip away.
I'm not impressed by this company. Not impressed at all.
Well, open sourcing cola makes sense. Open Source Software can be bloated, and Open Source Cola can make you bloated.
Time for my medication again...
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One thing I have learned about this industry is that the only constant is change. Once you stop learning and relearning what you already thought you knew, you might as well walk away from the industry (be it programming, network administration, whatever). You will fizzle away to nothing. Roadkill on the information superhighway.
Despite the fact that this industry is in a constant state of flux, and that it favours youth over experience, the older programmers/sysadmins will ALWAYS be light years ahead of the younger ones who insist on putting in the 20+ hours a day to do 10 hours of work. They have already made the mistakes, and we know what works and what will fail.
If you do not learn from them, you will be doomed to make the same mistakes that they have already made, many years in the past.
Zoid is a kick ass programmer. He is the father of CTF and certainly will be a driving force in his current company. Let us hope that in the near future, the industry does not discard him because of his age. It would be a waste.
As a majority of any committee meeting consists of reactive bantering, and endless hours of one 'spinning his wheels', this flywheel technology could be applied here, so something productive can be actually produced from these all to common corporate events.
This can also be applied to senate hearings, legal sessions, phylosophical discussions about the existance of ones self, dogs chasing their tails, and any other event or activity that involves a person (either literally or figuratively) running around in circles.
Imagine. the senate actually being used as a source of power. It boggles the mind.
As the human head radiates approximately 75% of all our expended body heat, we could use the lessons learned from this site to efficiently cool our pointy noggins, so as to allow us to overclock our craniums to the maximum extent.
At the very least, cranial cooling will reduce the number of times we product erronious errors, or outright crash.
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I work for a global company with a MOLP, and we do buy systems preinstalled with Win9x/NT, and have to purchase an additional license as per our agreement.
:)
Who cares? When we get systems with the License agreement and CD-Key, we give them away to employees, or to our after-hours clients, or to friends and family members.
Needless to say, our friends/clients are extremely happy with this arrangement.
Actually, I found no reference to the word 'dickhead' when I looked up the word.....
What dictonary are you using?
Actually, I was using the dictonary reference not to establish their ownership on the word Olympic, but I was merely using it for reference.
They do have a point in going after sites that are blatently trying to use the Olympic games/Committee to make a quick buck, ususally in a not so tasteful fashion. what I have a real problem with is them doing this carte blanche lawsuit to nail *everyone* who even remotely refers to the word Olympics. Far too many innocent people are going to get nailed due to their arrogance.....
Main Entry: Olympic Pronunciation: &-'lim-pik, O- Function: adjective Date: 1590 1 : 1OLYMPIAN 2 : of or relating to the Olympic Games
So, the word itself refers to the Olympic games, and there is no reference to other uses. The only legitimate claim is for people who live in, or near, places like Olympia in Washington state, or have registered trademarks using the mythological work Olympia or Olympic (Like Olympic Meats).
My point? While they may have a legitimate beef against companies trying to profit on the Olympics name (like sex sites), trying to have 1800 web sites pulled is ludicrous. They should do their research first, and check to see if the site has a legitimate claim to the URL.
Now, if someone could only register the URL www.OlympicsForDummies.com, then we could REALLY have a fun time.
In a recent column, Chad Simonds, a Webmaster for Tucows Linux, proclaimed that, "A lot of reviewers" from several small Linux news sites "don't tell you about the bugs and compatibility problems in a program, because they keep getting free software in exchange for glowing reviews."
Uhm, isnt this free software we are talking about? One does not need to write a glowing review, or even write a review period, as the software is free anyways...
Id be interested. Politics always helps in understanding a companies direction, and future viability.
Ooops. I should have said multi platform. Silly me. :)
Webmin is currently at 0.8, and is also cross platform. And, for the corporate minded, it falls under the BSD license.
It can be found at http://www.webmin.com/webmin
And no, I do not work for them. I have used the product, and have found it to be really cool. Server administration thru a web browser, using SSL!
Learn to read before posting.
No, I am not a zealot, despite your need to label me as such in order to prove your point.
The Linux project is run by tens of thousands of programmers, hackers, and tinkerers (and spearheaded by a single man, whose name I have already mentioned). By not releasing the whole source code prevents this army of coders from accessing, modifying, auditing, or otherwise improving the Solaris code. That is the whole reason for releasing it, right?
Being given scraps is not a gift. It is a joke, and a futile attempt by Sun to embrace open source as a viable business model.
Like I said, read before you post.
"One issue is getting it ready so that people can make sense of 5 [million] to 10 million lines of code. There are not many people who know what to do with 10 million lines of code. Freeware, open source is fine when you are talking about hundreds of lines of code," Anil Gadre, Sun's vice president and general manager for Solaris Software, told IDG News Service. "So one is an ease of use issue, and we have to try and make it friendly. The other thing we are finding out is that maybe people actually wanted certain parts and not the whole thing."
You are wrong Anil, very wrong. There is a man who knows what to do with millions of lines of code, and has been doing so for the last 10 years. His name is Linus Torvalds.
This whole paragraph outlines how Sun simply does not get the Open Source movement. Yes, they are trying. we have to give them that. But they really need to re-evaluate why they are doing it, and who they are catering to. This paragraph shows that, at this time, they just don't understand.
You know what? You are absolutely right. For some odd reason, regardless of the situation, the average computer user, quite literally, shuts off their brain when they get in front of their computer screen. It is amazing how someone who is of above average intelligence can do such stupid things when they get in front of the computer.
It all boils down to common sense. I have no sympathy for those who refuse to think when typing on a computer keyboard.
It took them this long to go after them?
C'mon. These companies are selling a service, not hardware. If the buyer didn't figure this out when they signed on the dotted line, then it sucks to be them.
The Academy says the ruling will let filmmakers know its first priority is, and always will be, theatrical exhibition
If The academy refuses to acknowledge the importance of the web, and tries to force film-makers to discard or ignore the marketing capabilities of the Internet, then the Academy is doomed to become roadkill on the information superhighway (my apologies for such an overused phrase).
Let them die. They will be replaced.
As the neutrinos zig-zag out of the hot (hundreds of billions of degrees) neutron star, they interact with the neutron star matter via the so-called weak interaction, the force responsible for radioactivity. Because the intense magnetic field can polarize the matter, more neutrinos will be emitted along the direction of the magnetic field than opposite to it.
They should rename it to be The Galactic Fart theory
Everything will be alright as long as the person has to read and agree to a licensing afreement prior to opening any documentation, much like any microsoft software. If they agree, then they can't do anything illegal with it, right?
To surf for porn? Imagine, having a whole bunch of semi intelligent bots collectively searching to 'net for free porn, faster than any hormonally overcharged teenager could ever hope to achive!
100,000 programmer can't be wrong!
First, I sign up for this developers corner thing. Then, I get spammed big time 'cause the zipperheads include ppl who did not want to be included, and mic-configured their majordomo. I unsubscribe, only to have this 'contest' slip away.
I'm not impressed by this company. Not impressed at all.
Well, open sourcing cola makes sense. Open Source Software can be bloated, and Open Source Cola can make you bloated.
Time for my medication again...
One thing I have learned about this industry is that the only constant is change. Once you stop learning and relearning what you already thought you knew, you might as well walk away from the industry (be it programming, network administration, whatever). You will fizzle away to nothing. Roadkill on the information superhighway.
Despite the fact that this industry is in a constant state of flux, and that it favours youth over experience, the older programmers/sysadmins will ALWAYS be light years ahead of the younger ones who insist on putting in the 20+ hours a day to do 10 hours of work. They have already made the mistakes, and we know what works and what will fail.
If you do not learn from them, you will be doomed to make the same mistakes that they have already made, many years in the past.
Zoid is a kick ass programmer. He is the father of CTF and certainly will be a driving force in his current company. Let us hope that in the near future, the industry does not discard him because of his age. It would be a waste.
Is to introduce them to:
1) Coffee
2) Penguin Mints (preferably mixed with #1)
3) Pizza
The rest will take care of itself.
that, in the spirit of Al Gores announcement. Dan Quayle will state that he invented the Potatoe server
As a majority of any committee meeting consists of reactive bantering, and endless hours of one 'spinning his wheels', this flywheel technology could be applied here, so something productive can be actually produced from these all to common corporate events.
This can also be applied to senate hearings, legal sessions, phylosophical discussions about the existance of ones self, dogs chasing their tails, and any other event or activity that involves a person (either literally or figuratively) running around in circles.
Imagine. the senate actually being used as a source of power. It boggles the mind.
I poured hot grits down my pants! What should I do?
orI tried to display pictures of Natalie Portman Naked, and my system crashed!
orLinux Sucks
As the human head radiates approximately 75% of all our expended body heat, we could use the lessons learned from this site to efficiently cool our pointy noggins, so as to allow us to overclock our craniums to the maximum extent.
At the very least, cranial cooling will reduce the number of times we product erronious errors, or outright crash.
Damn, I forgot to take my medication again.....